Suspect in custody after violent, random stabbing attack in Anne Arundel County
On Saturday, March 27, at approximately 3:45 p.m., officers with the Anne Arundel County Police Department responded to the 100 block of Campus Green Drive in Arnold, Maryland, for a stabbing in progress.
“We had what appears to be a random act of violence in a residential neighborhood with a very violent suspect,” Anne Arundel County police Lt. Jackie Davis said. ~ WBAL-TV
The female caller and her adult son were driving on Campus Green Drive when a male in the roadway refused to get out of the way of the vehicle. When the caller stopped her vehicle, the suspect threw himself into the car breaking the driver’s side mirror. The suspect began yelling that she hit him with the car. The caller called 911 and her son exited the car to confront the suspect, during this confrontation the suspect pulled a knife and stabbed the son.
The caller’s husband came outside to find the victim bleeding. The suspect approached the victim and stabbed him an additional time. When the victim was stabbed a second time, the caller’s husband ran to retrieve a legally owned firearm. No shots were fired, and the suspect continued walking down Jones Station Road.
The suspect was confronted by officers in the area of College Parkway near Peninsula Farm Road. The suspect had an approximately 6-inch blade in a sheath on his hip and what appeared to be blood stains on his shirt. Officers gave the suspect commands to get on the ground; he refused and was Tased.
The suspect fell to the ground, immediately stood up, pulled the taser prongs out of his body/clothing and drew the knife threatening officers. The suspect was still refusing to comply with officers’ verbal commands while brandishing the knife. Another officer was approaching the scene in his police vehicle. That officer used his vehicle to strike the suspect, disarming him and knocking him to the ground.
Officers immediately attempted to arrest the suspect who kept resisting arrest and fighting. After being tased an additional time the suspect finally complied and was taken into custody. The suspect was treated by medical professionals and charged accordingly. He is currently at the Jennifer Road Detention Center.
“Had our officers not taken that decisive action, who knows what could have happened,” Davis said. “We are trained to take a violent offender into custody with the least amount of harm possible.”
Police identified their suspect as 31-year-old Theodore James Buffington, who has no fixed address. The 20-year-old stabbing victim is being treated at an area trauma center with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The motive for this violent attack is still unknown.
Eastern District Detectives are investigating and have requested that anyone with any information regarding the stabbing or the suspect to please to call 410-222-6145 or the TipLine 410-222-4700.
(Source: Anne Arundel County Police Department)
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